Who’s Hurting Mother?

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It is midnight and a butterfly is trapped in my room. I see it fly over the ceiling and it hides in my bookshelf. I think it got stuck between the books. I tiptoe across the room. I am very quiet.

But the butterfly isn’t there. I think the rabbit scared it away. A rabbit hops backward down my walls. It’s a rabbit not a bunny. I don’t like bunnies. Only rabbits. Shhhh! He’s staring at me. I can see into his eyes. He is a pink rabbit with blue polka dots and he asks me if he can pretty please have a carrot. I have to tell him no because he already had his bedtime snack. I slide down under the covers. It’s hot and sticky under there. Like a jungle. Sometimes I hide under there all by myself so no one can find me. It’s dark. Sometimes the dark is so scary. When I’m in my jungle I can change shapes. I become a bird and fly away. I hope the dark doesn’t get scary tonight.

Mama’s watching TV. I hear a hummy sound downstairs that means the TV is on. Mama always watches TV at night. I like to cuddle in her arms and watch the TV too but I have to go to bed. Mama says I’m tired but she doesn’t know that I don’t sleep in my room. I hide in the jungle and I have to stay awake so that I can watch out for dragons. Dragons live in jungles. I have to be careful when I’m in my jungle because a dragon might sneak up on me in the dark and then I’d be scared but Mama couldn’t come to help me and I’d have to fight the dragon on my own but I’m really brave. Mama tells me how brave I am but even Mama doesn’t know that I could fight a dragon.

Mama’s still watching TV. The hummy noise helps me go to sleep. Sometimes I can’t hear the hummy noise. I have to stay awake because it gets so loud. When it gets really loud I crawl under the sheets but ...

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...gle all night but I don’t know if she ever fought the dragon. I bet there was a fire-breathing dragon in her jungle. And I bet Mama fought the dragon all night. Mama’s brave too. Maybe Mama was stronger than the dragon. Maybe the dragon was stronger than Mama. Sometimes I have a tough time finding my way out of the jungle. I hope Mama didn’t get lost in there.

I snuggle in between Mama’s arm and Mama’s heart. I can hear her heart beating. Thump thump thump. Hummmmm. Thump thump thump. It’s warm next to Mama’s heart. But it’s not too loud. Thump thump thump. The thumpy sound helps me go to sleep. My cheek is next to Mama’s heart. Thump thump thump. It sounds like Mama’s running out of her jungle. And I’m waiting for Mama here next to her heart with the hummy from the TV. I can still hear the mama bird singing outside. Maybe Mama hears her too. Thump thump thump.

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